The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-23
FARM Morrs.

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Queens over 2 years Of ago are apt
to become barren, and should be super.
seeded with those Of greater vigor and
more fecundity.
II you have not heretofore cut your
hay and fodder, by all mears buy acut.
ng.box. The saving In feeding cut
fodder will surprise you.
"A Colorado man says that he has
made moro money by furnishing lambs
to butchers than by anything he has
ever tried before in Colorado.
When vegetables are stored in cellars
they must DO kept from fermenting, as
they surely will ferment when piled in
large bulk. This may be accomplished
by piling on shelves so as to allow some
circulation of air among them, OF by
packing in barrels.
Do not let your chickens 60 into win
ter quarters with scaly legs. Treat
them to q couple of applications of sui
phur and lard, and GOAL oil the roosts
frequently. Scaly legs are not only
unsightly, but fowls cannot do the work
they ought to thus encumbered.
Roots should not be fed with strawor
poor hay. as they are too much alike in
composition. Feed the roots with clio.
yer or good hay, and give the more
concentrated food with the straw. It
requires more skill 10 be successful in
feeding poor than rich kinds of food.
Given in winter, cooked food-fed
slightly warm, as it is pretty sure to be
lis eaton more rapidly and does more
good than that uncookcd. Cows in-
crease heir yieh of milk on it, and all
animals thrive better than previously.
1t is said that 1000 sheep kept on a
piece of ground one year will make the
soil capable of yielding grain enough
over and above the capacity of the soil
without the sheep manure-to support
1885 sheep an entire year.
4. 1t has been estimated that cattle dis
ease iii the past fortylive years has cost
Great Britain $500, OOO.0 900. Commits
sioner Colman recommends q cattle
quarantine against all Europe, which
has been the hot-b.d of diseases which
aftcrward afflicted this country.
1t is n fact that dogs seldom attack
sheep kept with cattle, unless in the
Ease of some old rogue, ana then only
when the sheep / found at a consid-
erable distance, for the instinct of the
cattle is to attack animals found chas.
ing or worrying other stock near them.
Prevention in all cases of disease,
whether man, boast or fowls, If sue.
cessful, removes the necessity of n
cue, and it therefore becomes more
important and worthy of greater con-
consideration. Prevention is not SO
expensive, and involves less labor,
vcNation and anxiety.
Geese do not receive as much atten-
ton as they should on farms especially
adapted to tho rearing OF water fowl.
Besides yielding a regular income in
tho way of feathers, they are one of
the most profitable fowls for the mar.
ket. Much easier reared than turkeys,
they cell as readily in most seasons al
as good profits.
Prot. Storer says a ration of thirty
pounds of pumpkin per cow daily will
increase the flow and improve the
quality of milk. More than this guam
tity should not be given. Pumpkins
are very cheap food, as q couple of
tons can be grown to the acre with the
corn crop. The seeds of the pumpkin
ought to be removed before feeding.
A pig that, while eating, Nakcs tie
head out Of the trough and acts as ii
the slcp had run tho wrong way has
the sniilles. He should be removed
from the herd and cared for, as the
disease is contagious. Put pine tar in
the slo,s and smear both the nose
and face with it. Feed sulphur and
t%urpentine. A free use of carbolic acid
both externally and internally. should
also be made.
1t is safe to assert that not half of
the farmers of the country have an as
paraggus bed in the homo garden, aud
1T is equally safe to say that no piece
of ground on tho farm will pay as we'll
if properly cared for as a good bed of
this delicious vegetable. 1t is but lit
tie trouble to care Tor, and it furnishes
a supply of delicious green food at a
time of year when such food is most
desirable.
A western dairyman has hit upon a
very simple plan for warming water
for his stock to drink in winter, says
the Michigan Farmer. He put an iron
plate, say eighteen inches square, on
the bottom of his water tank. cutting
away the wood, of course, where the
iron was. Under this plate he used an
oil stove. He says 10 cents worth of
oil a day would warm the water for
sixty COWS up to 20 . or more.
Mistook His Meaning.
Butcher Ito Bridget)-This bill has
been running for q long time. and you